Siva Sankar Meessala,
Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate.
Phone: +91-9866812314.
E-Mail: shankaranls@outlook.com
Skill Set: Windows System Administrator, Azure, VMware, Hyper-V, ADFS
Professional Summary:
 Around 11 years of Experience in Design, Implementation & Engineering functions. Working as a
specialist Solutions Architect with focus to help customers migrate entire set ups to Azure Cloud.
 Excellence in Microsoft Azure, IT Infrastructure & Operations and Deployment.
 Expertise in Deploying, managing, monitoring and supporting infrastructure solutions on Azure
and Hybrid environments with various tools.
 Having Experience Configuring and managing Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Connect health,
Microsoft Azure Active Directory
 Resolved Azure AD issues relating to Office 365, Active Directory to Azure AD
 Provided guidance in the planning, gathering requirements, recommendations, and
implementation of data migration to Office 365, and configuration best practices
 Install and Manage security reporting tools to monitor any Active Directory changes. Plan and
manage all the migrations and upgrades related to Active Directory and Domain controllers
 Planning, designing and implementing the various solutions on windows server platform
technologies and its components like Active directory, DFS shares, RDS Service and high
availability cluster environment
 Extensive involvement in Designing Azure Resource Manager Template and in designing custom
build steps using PowerShell.
 Install and configure Active Directory Domain Services for objects management (users, groups,
network printers, network guests' nodes) and Active Directory Lightweight Active
Directory Services for deployment of applications.
 Expertise in Active Directory design and support (Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD)
Schema, Organization Unit (OU), LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.)
 Performed daily monitoring tasks to assure the proper health of multiple Active Directory
environments Supported multi-domain DNS environments and configured DHCP scope for those
environments
 Migration specialist on – Plan and Develop roadmaps and deliverables to advance the migration
of existing solutions on-premise systems to Azure cloud
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1.
Name of the Organization
: Wipro Limited
Designation
: Technical Lead
Period of Service
: Oct’22 to till Date
 Managing Microsoft identity Management of Azure AD, Azure AD Application proxy, Azure AD Connect,
Azure AD Pass through Authentications.
 Creating and managing Application integration for identity and access management. Having
experience of creating conditional Access policy MFA.
 Familiarity in the following areas: Single sign-on, enterprise directory architecture ad design, directory
schema, namespace.
 Successfully established and tested Azure AD for production, Provide technical direction to allow AD
on-prem group to populated Users.
 Active directory federation services, SAML, Web single sign-on(SSO), OAuth and related Authentication
technologies
 Experience configuring and managing Azure AD connect, Azure AD connect health, Microsoft Azure
Active Directory.
 Configured and resolved Azure AD Sync Issues, Various types of Data issues and attributes issues
 Provide end to end support for the migration of all the Directory objects, from the source (multiple
Domains), to the target single domain.
2.
Name of the Organization
: CTRLS Data Centers / Cloud4c Data Centers
Designation
: Principal Engineer
Period of Service
: Mar’15 to Oct’22
 Having good experience in Installation, configuration & troubleshooting of Windows
2003/2008/2012/2016 and 2019 Servers.
 Administered 40+ Active Directory (AD) domains and related services supporting 5k users in
banking/SAP domain.
 User management of Domain and user accounts as well as assign access rights and
permission.
 Installation and configuration of server roles DC, ADC DNS, DHCP, FSRM, WDS, FTP, IIS.
 Planning and implementation of group policy as per process requirement. Backup and restore
of GPO.
 DNS Server installation and configuration. Adding DNS zones (forward/revers).
 Configuration of failover cluster in different sites or region , Quorum disk configuration
 Experience in Azure VM deployment, VM backups and restore, Disk Management, Disk space
extend, Resize VM SKU, Domain Rejoin.
 Configuring the VMs in Availability Set to provide higher availability for virtual machines.
 Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Azure Update Management and New
update deployment.
 Knowledge on Azure VM networking rules and Load balancer.
 Experience in cost optimization.
 Hands-on experience in Troubleshooting Azure VM access.
 Hands on Experience on creating the Resource groups, VM’s, Vnet, storage account.
 Monitoring the availability of different Network devices and Servers and performing the
health check for the devices.
 Good understanding of Azure Active Directory. Experience of integrating Azure AD with OnPrem AD.
 Installation , configuration & Managing of Active Directory Federation services
 Integrated multiple external vendor applications to ADFS 2.0 in order to enable seamless SSO
capabilities
 Designed the ADFS 2.0 migration to ADFS 3.0 on Win 2012 R2 for new datacenter. This
allowed multiple authentication methods (forms-based/integrated/pass-through), and new
features, based on application security requirements and internal/VPN/external connections.
 Created multi-factor authentication process for SSO applications for device management.
Each user created a designated PIN for the first factor, and used integrated AD for the second.
 Implementing group policies, permissions (Security, Sharing), profiles, configuring clients and
member servers in domain, etc.
 Implement security policy in compliance with CIS benchmarks.
 Reviewing system error logs and user-reported errors, providing technical support for staff
and back-end system users.
 Experienced in cyber security vulnerability fixes.
 Performing weekly/monthly virus scans through McAfee and Symantec End Point
Protection.
 Recommendations to clients regarding prevention of Ransomware (AV, ports, firewall
and data backup).
 Following ITIL process in terms of handling Incident, Problem and Service request.
 Creating and working on incidents under Service Management Tools like Vistara, OP
Manager, Service Desk, Kayako, NNC and Myshift.
 Maintaining the Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Response Time and Resolution Time.
3.
Name of the Organization
: HCL INFO SYSTEMS Private Limited
Payroll Company
: CHAQUE JOUR HR SERVICES PVT. LTD &
: Talent Maximus India Pvt Ltd
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Designation
: System Administrator
Period of Service
: Sep’2011-March ’15
Having good experience in Installation, configuration & Administration of Windows
2008/2k12 Servers.
Configuration and maintenance of Active Directory, DNS and DHCP servers.
Creating & Managing OUs, user accounts & Groups on Windows servers
Planning and implementing security and group policies
Performance and Health checking of Servers.
Perform server and security audits, system backup restore procedures, and other recovery
processes in accordance with the company's disaster recovery and business continuity
strategies
Managing and Supporting for FILE, PRINT, FTP servers.
Ensure system connectivity of all servers, shared software and other applications
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Performed schedule daily, weekly and monthly maintenance
Installation and configuration of local and network printers.
Responsible for regular updates of Trend Micro Antivirus Server
Experience in maintains the HP Prolient (DL 380 G5, G6) and Dell servers.
Converted the Physical machine to VMs using standalone VM Converter
Performing Snapshots, Cloning, and VM migrations.
Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion.
Configuring alarms for Resource utilization on Vcenter
Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting
Manage task, events and alarms
Coordinating with vendors for server Hardware related issues.
Installation of OS in HP ProLiant BL & DL Series Servers through ILO
Academic Qualification:
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Master of Computer Applications - Computer (2009 passed out )
Personal Summary:
Name
Father’s Name
D.O.B
Gender
Nationality
Languages
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Siva Sankar Meessala
Tataiah M
02-12-1985
Male
Indian
English, Telugu & Hindi.
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the all the above personal and technical details are true to my
knowledge and best my belief.
Place: Hyderabad,
Date: 20-07-2023.
Siva Sankar Meessala